Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist
Certified Focusing Trainer working with Adults & Children
I work with PTSD, addiction, birth trauma, childhood trauma and developmental trauma, intergenerational trauma, domestic abuse including coercive control, gaslighting and stalking, sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, chronic illness, cancer, menopause, grief, shame, spirituality, Institutional Abuse and Systemic Oppression, parenting, pain management, and LGBTQ+/GSRD.
Personal Statement
My work combines aspects of humanistic therapy, psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, creative therapy, biospirituality, wholebody focusing and relational wholebody focusing, transactional analysis, attachment theory, existential therapy and systems therapy. However, foundational to all of this is safety, the client’s own experience and how to safely express that experience whether it be through art, play, movement, story, music etc.
I am particularly interested in how the body expresses trauma through pain and chronic illness, how to provide a safe container for shame to be accompanied and healed and intergenerational resilience and post-traumatic growth when working with trauma.
I love what I do and the people I have the privilege to work with and strive to create a safe, supportive space for the clientâs own felt experience and inner resources to be explored.
Location(s):
Office 1: Chrysalis Focusing, Whitehead, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Office 2: Online/Zoom
Public Contact Details:
telephone:+44 7823 476206
website: www.chrysalisfocusing.com
email:Â cliodhna@chrysalisfocusing.com
Language(s): English
Professional memberships with licensing or registering bodies:
Registered Member of British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
Member of The International Focusing Institute TIFI
Member of the British Focusing Association BFA
Member of the Irish Focusing Network IFN
Member of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy USABP
Academic and training qualifications:
Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy
FDSc – University of Ulster, Belfast
BA Hons – Queens University, Belfast
PG Dip – University of Ulster, Coleraine
TIFI Certified Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist
TIFI Certified Focusing Trainer working with adults and children
Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma awarded by the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine (NICABM)
Therapeutic services:
Individual psychotherapy/counselling
Face to Face sessions, Online/Zoom sessions
Areas of special interest or advanced training:
Childhood Trauma / Developmental Trauma
Birth Trauma
Institutional Abuse
Systemic Oppression
Domestic Abuse
Spirituality
Health Anxiety
Pain Management
Menopause
Post-Traumatic Growth
Training:
I offer individual sessions for people to learn Focusing (open to the public),I offer training for organizations and teams
Details of these and any other services:
I run face to face workshops and courses on Menopause, Stress & Emotional Regulation.
I am also running a series of workshops based around the Celtic Calendar
Permission:
*I give permission for my information to be listed, and for people to contact me using this information
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